A game-show host kidnapped your guy to be on a crazy game show with games including Sad Panda Skydiving.

Also in the games: giant balls of yarn and guys in beer-bottle costumes.

This should give everyone a nice break from all the serious shooting-fests and blowings-up.

This week: New Gears of War 3Fenix Rising is an add-on this week for Gears of War 3. It has five locales to fight on, and four new characters. That means plenty more shooting. Sadly, there appear to be no pandas.

This week: New Star WarsNo one is tired of playing the awesome Star Wars: The Old Republic, but here is a new download anyway. Rise of the Rakghouls has your guys looking into a virus outbreak.

I see a problem: You can't fix a virus with a lightsaber. But it will be fun sabering bounty hunters while you try. New this week: AmyAmy is a survival horror game, not a Pure Prairie League song. (Here's the website to the game.) You play Lana, a train wreck survivor who must help a girl (that would be Amy) survive in a fight against crazy murderous people.

OK, here's the Pure Prairie League song, too.

She has to escape the darkness, but electric cables have been cut. Those wacky zombies! They are such scamps.

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